My parents were health freaks long before that was even a thing. We didn't eat red meat, drink soda, or even use butter. We "dressed" our baked potatoes with olive oil and fresh rosemary.

Fast food? Forget about it. Not sure how I even survived.

In hindsight, they were way ahead of their time in many ways, but I remember wishing I could eat a Skippy peanut butter and Smucker grape jelly sandwich on Wonder Bread and wash it down with a can of Coke or a glass of Tang, like everyone else did.

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Tang was a staple for Americans in the 1970s and 1980s, when I was a kid. If you're not familiar, it was a sweet and citrusy "shelf-stable" powdered mix that you'd stir into a glass of water and drink to get a dose of vitamin C.

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